Address given by Georges Bidault, President of the Special Council of Ministers, to the Ad Hoc Assembly (Strasbourg, 9 March 1953)

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On 9 March 1953, Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Ad Hoc Assembly, hands to Georges Bidault, President of the Special Council of Ministers, the draft Treaty establishing the European Political Community. During the ceremony, Georges Bidault gives an address in which he emphasises the importance of European integration.